Friday, December 19, 2008

Even though it's Day 5 of our BasicGrey & Hero Arts sketch week over on the Hero Blog and things are coming to a close! ;) Can you believe it is Friday already!? My boys are all out for the holidays and things are wild around here and there's still so much for me to do before next week. Anyone else??!!

And this is my page based on this awesome sketch. I decided to use the alpha stamps to create my own patterned paper, so I stamped, then embossed on the paper, then cut it to size! Very easy and gives such an impact!

Jen has another awesome card sketch over on the Hero blog that she and the super-talented Shari Carroll did cards based on as well. Here's a taste of Jen's here! Isn't it adorable?! Granola is so perfect for masculine based projects! Run on over there and check them out!

I mentioned yesterday but it bears repeating since it's such good news - Hero Arts realized how crazy busy we are during the holidays so they extended their sketch challenge deadline to the 28th! YAY! More time to play! I hope that gives those of you that wanted to play the chance you need! You can check out all the details about that and see the start of our sketch week here!

And one last time - remember to leave me a comment about just about anything :) on any of my posts from this week (including this one!) by 11:59 PM Eastern Time and be entered to win my Superdidooper Prize pack (sneak peek shown in the post below!) I'm off to do more holiday things...yesterday's Gingerbread House was a bit of a disaster! ha!

Hi! I love your LO and your use of the letter stamps. Hopefully you will join Hero Arts again sometime because I absolutely loved everything about it. And you now have a faithful follower of your blog.

That is such a good idea using the alpha stamps with a layout about reading...my daughter is in kindergarten, and I so want to do a layout about her learning to read...thanks so much for the inspiration! that card is just too cute too! such great ideas for layouts and cards this past week!good luck getting ready for the next week!!!

I saw that layout at 2P's and Loved it! Printed it out even without looking at all the details of who/what was used, etc! How cool to visit here and see it again. Thank you for sharing! Merry Christmas!!

Love the picture - the way you incorporated the letters really make the page interesting - please enter me into the give a way - I would love a wonderful Christmas Suprise !! BG Granola is marvelous paper

Hi Kelly! Love those colors of the granola line, great layout and card. Sorry to say, but I'm glad I'm not the only one having gingerbread house disasters! Two years ago, our gingerbread collapsed, and I had a little wee bit of a melt down, my then 8 year old daughter tells me, "mom, it's just a gingerbread house, it doesn't matter if it's not perfect, what matters is that we make it a memory at Christmas, that's what Christmas is all about" Now for last christmas and this year, I found pre-built ones at Walmart, all you have to do is decorate!!! YAY! Actually, we're doing that tonight I think. Sheesh, sorry for the long winded post!

I love seeing what you and Jennifer have been doing all week on Hero Arts. It is so great to see your paper spotlighted with one of my favorite rubber stamp lines! Thanks for providing such great inspiration! AND double thanks for such amazing paper colors and designs! You rock!

oh kelly, have i got a gingerbread story for you. last thanksgiving i picked up a gb house kit and sat down with 3 of my 4 nieces who were all 5 years old at the time. the girls were very patient while i mixed the icing and read the directions. i got the house up and the girls were decorating their respective pieces; and then it started. one piece of the house fell down. aunt cassi would get it back up and patch it with some more frosting. once that piece was secured another would fall. the girls endured this with me for over 30 minutes. ultiamtely, they decorated their pieces and later on ate the house. i have some pretty sweet photos of the house's pieces and of tooth marks in icing. attempting the house with the girls was a lot of fun, we laughed about it, and enjoyed eating it. the "creating process" was so much more important than the finished product.

good luck with your holiday projects. i have several left to do myself!

It has been a great week and I'm glad I found your blog. I love Basic Grey-only problem is it's so darn pretty I have a hard time cutting it up. Still can't force myself to break into the Scarlet letter-just take it out periodically and go oooh!